Some Sunday Reading

Here are some posts I collected off those internets you might find interesting:

  1. The NSA literally doesn't have enough electricity to run all of its equipment. At least, it will be harder for them to violate our freedoms. Maybe there is an upside to global warming...
  2. An interesting take on upper middle class subsurbs. I'm not sure I agree, but it is interesting.
  3. A nice takedown of the Bush Administration's economic 'accomplishments.'
  4. Juan Cole gets all Dark Lord of Mordor on your ass. Seriously, he proposes a very interesting hypothesis. Given all of the ridiculousness Little Lord Pontchartrain's Uruk-Hai army believes, it's just not that far-fetched.
  5. Publius has a very good analysis of one of the reasons Lieberman is in such trouble.
  6. A superb defense of partisanship from Talk Left.
  7. Stirling Newberry has a very interesting argument that 'moderatism' is a very rigid ideology.

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